South Korea and Japan Reportedly Agree to Scholarship Fund to Settle Forced Labor Issue
|I figured some fund like this would be set up to resolve the forced labor issue. I like the scholarship fund idea though instead of just paying the victim’s families cash because it shows that the Japanese are investing in Korea’s future:
South Korea and Japan have tentatively agreed to create a “future youth fund” to sponsor scholarships for students, as part of a deal on settling the issue of compensation for Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor, sources said Sunday.
The fund will be jointly formed by the Federation of Korean Industries, South Korea’s big business lobby, and the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), according to the government sources.
The South Korean foreign ministry is expected to announce the details Monday along with the details of a broader agreement reached between the two countries to settle the issue of compensation for Korean victims of forced labor during World War II, the sources said.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but expect the Korean left to go bonkers in their criticism due to President Yoon trying to settle this issue and improve relations with Japan.
Japan is all about business. It’s good to see some adults in Korean government taking advantage of a deal that moves Korea forward.
With two utterly corrupt right-wing fascist party leaders, no one in Korea is going to honor this fake deal. Nor anyone in Japan would honor it either.
The two countries are heading for war in the near future if this important but completely hidden issue, with trillions of dollars in gas/oil at stake, doesn’t get resolved soon.
https://thediplomat.com/2023/02/keep-an-eye-on-the-japan-korea-joint-development-zone/
South Korean commies want cash because they can steal it. Just look at the poor story of the comfort women.